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1. IN AN ELECTROSTATOGRAPHIC MACHINE FOR PRODUCING ENLARGED REPRODUCTIONS OF THE MICROIMAGES ARRANGED IN COLUMNS AND ROWS ON A MICROFICHE CARD ONTO SHEETS OF COPY PAPER THE COMBINATION OF AN ELECTROSTATOGRAPHIC SURFACE, MEANS FOR MOVING THE SURFACE AT A PREDETERMINED RATE, HOLDING MEANS FOR SUPPORTING THE MICROFICHE CARD IN A SCANNING PLANE, FIRST INDEXING MEANS FOR MOVING SAID HOLDING MEANS IN EQUAL INCREMENTAL STEPS EACH THE WIDTH OF A MICROIMAGE ALONG EACH ROW OF THE CARD, SECOND INDEXING MEANS FOR MOVING SAID HOLDING MEANS IN EQUAL INCREMENTAL STEPS EACH THE LENGTH OF A MICROIMAGE ALONG EACH COLUMN OF THE CARD, A PROJECTION SYSTEM HAVING AN OPTICAL AXIS EXTENDING THROUGH THE MICROFICHE CARD ADAPTED FOR PROJECTING THE ILLUMINATED IMAGES THEREOF ONTO THE ELECTROSTATOGRAPHIC SURFACE DURING MOVEMENT THEREOF, DRIVE MEANS ARRANGED FOR PRODUCING RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN THE OPTICAL AXIS AND SAID HOLDING MEANS IN SAID SCANNING PLANE FOR PRODUCING SCANNING OF EACH OF THE MICROIMAGES, AND CONTROL MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID INDEXING MEANS AND SAID DRIVE MEANS AND ADAPTED TO ACTIVATE THE SAME AUTOMATICALLY IN A PREDETERMINED SEQUENCE OF INDEXING MOVEMENTS COUPLED WITH SCANNING MOVEMENTS THEREBY EFFECTING PROGRAMMED REPRODUCTION OF A PRESELECTED NUMBER OF MICROIMAGES. 